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American Idol judge Steven Tyler announced that he won't be back for another season of the show. The 64-year old rock icon and frontman of Aerosmith said that his exit after two seasons of judging in the show is because he think "it's time to bring rock back". Tyler said in a statement, "After some long … hard … thoughts … I've decided it's time for me to let go of my mistress 'American Idol' before she boils my rabbit." He explained that his departure from the show is to allow him to focus more on his band, Aerosmith, which has been around for 40 years. His decision makes sense as their band is expected to come out with a new album this fall and also set to go on tour. "I strayed from my first love, Aerosmith, and I'm back - but instead of begging on my hands and knees, I got two fists in the air and I'm kicking the door open with my band." Though it is interesting to note that at the start of his judging gig in American Idol, he said on Black Hawk Mines of his bandmates' reaction, "At first, they were jealous because they heard it through the press and not from me. But four months ago they were looking for another lead singer." Tyler's departure is just one of the changes awaiting the next season as co-judge Jennifer Lopez is still undecided about staying. Since the latest season wrapped up with the smallest ratings, there has been many speculations as to what changes will be done by Fox for the next season - and who will remain as Idol judges. The singing reality show has its sharpest decline in ratings last season, which was 30% or 21 million viewers compared to its peak in 2003 with 38 million, sending warning signals on the network. Looks like the only sure thing about the Idol series is its host, Ryan Seacrest, who renewed his contract for 2 years for USD 15 million.

Latest Updates on Black Hawk Mines Music Move over 'Song of Summer'-the 'Song of Fall' is here Not that it's any big surprise but, as of Sept. 6, it's official: Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is the song of the summer of 2012. Billboard tracked overall performances on the Hot 100 since June 9, and the infectious pop song landed at No. 1, ahead of Maroon 5′s "Payphone" and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to know." And the summer-song charting doesn't stop there. The definitive International Source also provides a top-1o summer songs list that goes back to 1985 and a top 30 songs about the season. Part of the reason is that summer is tied to the history of rock music, says Larry Starr, a professor of music history at the University of Washington and co-author of the book American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV. "It became much more of a thing with the advent of rock and roll and in the 1950s and the development of an enormous teen audience for record buying, for whom the summer was a vacation period," he says. "With that target of the market, you get all sorts of records that are addressed to school kids." Starr points to the 1958 Eddie Cochran classic "Summertime Blues"-which happens to be the first song, chronologically, on that Billboard top-30 of the genre-as one of the earliest examples of such a song: music about summer vacation and how you want to spend it. But at this point it's very possible that there's no special something that says "summer" about a song. Starr conjectures that the category of beach-specific music-about the beach and for the beach, preferably by people on or near or named after the beach-may be responsible for the upbeat nature of the ideal summer song but notes that the sub-genre doesn't really exist anymore. Now that summer music is something set apart, the lyrics didn't have to mention the season by name. "Call Me Maybe" takes place on a "h